Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 19, 1915, Page 1

In Their Efforts to Thwart German Attempt to Pass Through Serbia to Aid the Turks. SERBIAN RESISTANCE IS UNABATED IN VIGOR Field Marshal Von Mackensen’s Army is Meeting With Greater Opposition Than Was Expected—Serbians Have Not Yet Fallen Back on Their Stronger Positions —Italians Are to Co-operate With Allied Fleet in the Aegean Sea—Russia May Surprise the Central Powers With Steps That Are Being Taken to Overcome Turkey Before Assistance Can Reach Her—There Has 'Beert Plenty of Fighting on the Eastern and Western Front, But No General Offensive. London, Oct. 18, 10 p. m.—The re- ports’ that the allies have occupied Strumitsa and landed at Enos, which was recently transferred from Turkish to Bulgarian rule, has caused a more optimistic feeling throughout the allied countries. g Serbians Holding Invaders. As to the progress of the near-east- ern_campalgn, it is known from both Sérblan ,and German accounts that Field Marshal Von Mackensen's army it meeting with greater resistance than was expected and, although it is prob- able that the Serbians eventually must fall back .on stronger strategic posi- tions in the morth, the fact that the allies- are bringin; against the Brigarians and so placing them that the Buigariahs will be com- le6_to divide their armies, gives ope here that the Germans may be balked in their latest attempt to reach the eea and bring assistance to the Turks. Teutons Meet Stubhorn Resistance. All along the line the Serbians and Mrbfimtenmsd‘mlth'bc\;;, ‘who are also” attacked, are offéring very SEabbotn remstance” to- both. Austro ey have Biven UD a mumber of i “-“lfi:‘“' they have not yet - ed e cn which they expect to make the stand. Bulgarigns Make Little Progress. Baigarians, so far as can be learned, ‘have made progress only In the Zlotpkopska valley, near the River ‘Morava, norta of the town of Vranya, where ther hlew up a bridge. There is no confirmetion, however, of the re- port that they cut the railway in this district, the bridge which they de- stroyed being 2 emall wooden one near the mailway. The Bulgarian force ‘whic] penetrated the valley is not | Allies Cet Strategic Point. On the other hand, it is pointed out, the capture of Strumitss. is of real teglc value, as its occupation per- the defense of the southern end of the railway and compels the Bul- Bariéns to keep a force there. Enos, tao, is of value, as, although not a good landing place, its occupation threatens Dedeagateh, which has a great harbor and is fortified and mined. The civilian population has already left Dedeagatch, which is entirely in the hands of the military, under German officers. Italian Ships Sent to Aegean. “The Itallans, according to the latest reports, will not send a contingent to heavy forces|& the Balkans, but co-operation of their navy in the Aegean, where an allie fleet has already gathered, is looke for. New Russian Movement. The point af which the Russians will strikc has not yet been disclosed. The expectation is, however, that the allie: have a surprise for the central powers and that steps are being taken t: bring urkey to her knees before assist. ance can reach her. There has been plenty. of ern fronts, but in neither case ha: either side attempted a general offen: sive. The Germans are still making and have met with some minor s cessés, but thence to the Rumanian border, wherever there has been any it is expected the Russians who are attacking, and they, too, claim fighting, s gains. Much the same condi- tions prevail on the western front. The British have been attacking egst of Vermelles, according to_ the Berlin re- port, while the Germans attacked the French near Souchez and the French took the offensive in Champagne. Lor- raine nad the Vosges. None of these e armits. ations in the SIR EDWARD CARSON RESIGNS FROM' BRITISH CABINET. Understood That He Disapproved P icy Followed in the Balkans, London, Oct. 18, 10.40 p. m.—Sh Edward Carson, attorney general has resigned from the British cabinet. The resignation of Sir Edward Car- ot the divergence of views known to ex- ist among the ministers, is the result according to an authoritative state- son, the first open manifestation ment, not of the controversy over con scription, but of the condition of af. fairs in ‘the Near -East. Sir Edward himself, 5o far, has made no personal explanation of his rea- sons for resigning, but it is under- stood that he disapproves of the poli cy whick is being followed in th Balkans and of the method of confid. ing the whole national small “inner cabinet.” It is expected that there will be ex citing debates in the house of com. mons next week, as severe attacks on the government are planned by mem- besr of the house in gonnection with the general military policy, especially in the Near East. BERLIN REPORTS STRONG DEMAND FOR STOCKS “Owing to the Favorable Situation in All /the War Theatres.” Berlin,_Oct. 18 (by wireless to Tuck- erton, N. J.)—A strong demand for stocks with an important upward movement on the Berlin stock ex- change, is reported by the Overseas News Agency today, “owing to the favorable situation in all war theatres, especially the Balkans.” Steel, mining, automobile and petro- leum stocks are in especially good de- mand. During the last few days there hes bben & wile inquiry, for shares of sshipping companies. Mexican stocks are improving, owing to the decision of the Pan-American conference to recommend . recognition of General Carranza. American railway stocks have a large following. ‘The money market reflects the in- flu of payments for war loan sub- ons. Call money is 4 1-2 to 5 ‘cent. The private discount rate is 4 1-8 per cent. KILLED BY EXPRESS TRAIN / . WHILE TIGHTENING BOLTS Wichael Cavanaugh of Waterbury, a \ Track Walke: anrb:‘ryih lOM-c-‘ t;' —M‘lc)uoll Clv‘l’; anaugh s , an_employe the New Haven road, was struck and rlmmy killed shortly before three ffiy&h afternoon by a southbound “WOMAN OF MYSTERY"” ON TRIAL IN NEW YORK. Charged With Posing and Obtaining Widow of Henry M. Money Flagler. New York, Oct. 18 ma Howe, known as the “Woman _of Mystery” was placed on trial today in- dictments charging her with grana larceny in having obtained money by posing as the widow of Henry M. Flagler, of the Standard Oil company. Mrs. Howe is alleged to have ob- tained $4,435 from Frank J. Mahoney by claiming the she would receive estate in general sessicns on several $15,000,000 when the Flagler was settled. Subsequent to her arrest fice received communications delphia, an Pittsburgh, cities~through Henry. M. Flagler. “WALL OF CHURCH NO;LACE TO PERPETUATE HATRED” Tablet Containing Word “Murdered” Not Permitted to Be Placed. London, Oct. 18, 9 p. m.—"The wall appropriate of a church is not an to perpetuate hatred” was. the given by Sir Philip Wi cellor of refusing to permit a me t0 & victim of the Lusitania yoke church to bear the “who was murdered on the Lust e e b xSl Bt e . o the tablet. The chancellor ‘|'8iIX MEN HELD up : ' A WEST SHORE TRAIN. in- Haverstraw, N, ¥, and Then Es- caped in an_Automobile. men _held | i ince October 9, aa[n‘l heavy fighting on both the eastern and west- effort between Riga and Dvinsk policy. to a -Mrs. Zora Em- three months ago, the district nttomay';rgt- m police at Chicago, Washington, Phila- stating a woman had syindled persons in these posing as the widow of reason chan- the diocese of Chester. s ok tablet i Mhu‘My Reinforced. . Athens, via Parle, Oct, 19, 130 & bretion B, S VA, Berbin. Funeral of Dr. Ferdinand Goetz. ‘wireless to Tuck- erton, N. J.)—The funeral of Dr. Fer- dinand Goetz of Leipsic, president of the German Athletic union end found- er of the Turnverein of San was held in Leipsic in the presence representatives of the government and the municipality and many thousand citizens. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. EMPLOYES ARE OBDURATE. 13,000 Vote Unanimously to Reject Cofmpromise Offer of Manager. Schenectady, N. Y., Oct. 18.—Repre- sentatives of ‘the 13,000 employes of the General Electric company now on strike tonight voted unanimously to reject the compromise offer made by George E. Emmons, general manager of the plant. The workers went on strike when their demand for an eight hour day was refused by the com- pany. Mr. Emmons offered the employes & compromise which would have called {for a 5 per cent. increase in wages now, with a nine and a half hour day, and another 5 per cent, increase in one year and a nine hour day. Represent- atives of the employes will confer with Mr. Emmons tomorrow, when he will be notified of their decision. The press committee of the employes announced tonight that the individual union meetings had resulted in a vote of approximately ten to one for an eight hour day. This committee also said that less than 100 men returned to the plant today, though officials had estimated that about 500 employes re- turned to work. NEW BRITAIN MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER. Wife of Accused Man, from Whom He Was Separated, Was Residing in Victim's Househeld. d d New Britain, Coun Freitar, 30 years old, is locked up at police * headquarters, charged with killicg Julius Guska, 25 years old, by shooting at the latter's home in Booth street late tonight. According to meagre police information, Freitar called at the Guska home, Where his wife, from whom he had been sep- arated, was living. Hesasked for some morey which he said was owed him, recelved it and then sat down for a &ocial call with Mrs. Freitar and Gus- ka. Suddenly Freitar, it is charged, produced a revolver and ‘ired three shots at Guska, death occurring in- stantly. Somedhe sent in a call for the police and Freitar submitted to ar- t without attempting o run away. e will be arraigned in police court tomorrow morning. ENT TO CALL PHYSICIAN, FOUND DEAD AT TELEPHONE: Widdletown Man's Oct. 18.—Emil s a £ ir| Mlddletown, Conn, Oct. 18.—Sam- uel Poliner, 22, of this city was found dead today in a small room at the plant of the Middletown Gaslight Co., Where he had gone to telephone for a physician to attend “his sister, who is ill. The voung man had been in the room two hours before the dis- covery was made. It is said that the room was full of gas and a physi- clan who was called said death was due to gas pelsoning. «The com- pany, however, denies this and the medical examiner will perform an au- topsy to determine the cause of death. Poliner was not employed by the Gas- light company. GEN. VILLA HAS COINED 6,000,000 SILVER PESAS With Which to Pay Soldiers and Rail- road Employes. El Paso, Texas, Oct. 13.-rGeneral Villa has coined six million silter pesos with which to pay his soldiers and railroad employes, according to a statement made today by arrival from Chihvahua City. The silver bullion was said to have been ore confiscated from northern Chihuahua mines. Ac- cording to this authority, the Villa gov- ernment at Chihuahua City has a mint operating day and nighf turning out currency which is said to contain 422 grains of refined silver per peso. The new currency is said to be re- sponsible for an increase of recruits to the Villa army. f STRIKE VOTE OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPH OPERATORS. Of Atlantic Coast District—Have Been Getting $25 to $50 a Month. New York, Oct. 18.—A strike vote is being taken by 400 wireless tele- graph operators who are members of the Atlantic Coast district of the Comiercial Telegraphers Union of Ame: §:a, according to an announce- ment made here today by George Schnatsinck, secretary of the eastern division of the United States. “The operators have been getting from $25 to $50 a month and the sen- timent among them is for a wage scale of $50 to $75" he declared. He added that a strile would tie up 65 per cent. of the Atlantic and trans.- Atlantic shippis OBITUARY. Arthur Graves. New York, Oct, 18.—Arthur Graves, for 14 years city editor of the New ‘ork TiMes, died¥at his home here tonight after an iliness of several months. Mr. Graves was born in Hartford, Conn. about 47 years ago. At the time of his death, Mr. Graves was president of the New York City News association. HARTFORD BANK CLERK MiSSING SINCE OCT, 9, Fred T. Honeyman Told Friends He ‘Was Going to New York, Hartford, Conn, Oct. i8It be hnesmman, & Glork at the Haritord: H an, o o ! Aetna iVational bank, has been miss- On that date he was ng to w York, but minc 'thw nothing. has been icard him, According to the beni offi ‘his docounts are correst. Mr, eyman is sin Snd i abaut’ 41 weses ol " '“ told friends he Smashedaon Rocks ON CALIFORNIA COAST Schooner Pounded to Pieces Within Minutes - After She Strusk— o Savers Picked Up the Only Two Men Saved. Ten San Francisco, Oct. 18—Six men nd two women were drowned early foday when the gasoline schooner Al- liance No. 2 was smashed to pleces on Malpass Rocks, twelve miles north of Point Arena, Calif. A surf boat from the Point Arena Life Saving station picked up two men. Pounded to Pieces in Ten Minutes. The schooner was pounded inta wreckage within ten minutes after she hit the rocks, Raphael Medina, one of the two men saved, reached shore through the surf and obtained aid. A telephone message did not reach the Point Arena life saving station -until nearly four hours after the wreck. Bound for Mazatlan, Sinaloa. Marshfield, Ore. Oct. 18.—The Al- liance No. 2 put in here Jate Wednes- day, out of oil, and Captain William Delouchrey_said he was bound for Mazatlan, Sinaloa, where he. expected to_go info the coasiwise trade. Miguel Abila, a Lewspaper man of Mazatlan, who was aboard, said he was the owner. TERRYVILLE STRIKERS FAIL TO ADJUST TROUBLE. President Informed Committee That All Strikers Who Were Not Back at 5.30 Could Consider Themselves Di charged. Terryville, Conn., Oct. 18.—An at- tempt of the striking employes of - the Eagle Lock company to reach some tory through a conference with Presi- dent R. J. Plumb of the firm Jate to- day fafled of its object, and the com- mittee was informed by Mr. Plumb that all ‘the strikers who were not back at their work by 5.30 o'clock in the af- ternoon might consider themselves dis- charged. The committee had asked him to give some indication of what they might expect in the way of an increase in wages. Mr. Plumb said he had nothing to say on that point. The shops would be open in the he said_and the company would f ‘at"Nberty to tile On nEW help as It ‘wished. About all but 200 of the 1200 em- ploved in the factoties, it was said to- night, are out. Several tesmeters at the factory declined to take their teams out during the afternoon, saying they had received intimations that it would not be 'well to do so. The drivers avho did deliver shipments at the oad station drove theif teams under guard of deputy sheriffs. About a dezen dep- uty sheriffs were on guard tonight ahout the factory. 3 CRUSHED WHEN AUTO ROLLED DOWN EMBANKMENT. Frank S. Harlow of North Branford Probably Victim of a Blowout. Branford, Conn., Oct. 18.—Frank S. Harlow of North Branford was killed on the highway in that town near the Three Bridges tonight when his auto- mobile left the highway and rolled over and over down an embankment, crush- ing him so badly that he died within a short time after aid reached him. From an inspection of the ruins of the car it was believed that the accident had been caused by a blowout which ren- dered the machine unmanageable and threw it over the bank. Harlow was about 40 years old and is survi y his wife and daughter. He formerly lived in West Haven, but last spring bought a place in North Branford. He was on his way to East Haven at the time of the accident and was alone in the car, REV. W, D. SWAFFIELD PRES'T BAPTIST MINISTERS’ ASS'N. Rev. Earle W. Darrow, Willington, Elected Secretary. Middletown, Conn., Oct. 18.—Pre- liminary to the 92d annual state Bap- tist convention here, the Baptist Young People’s Union tonight held its 34th annual, meeting and elected the following officers: President, Rev. W. |T. Thayer, Wallingford; vice presi- dents, Rev. E. E. Gates, Ansonia, and Leonard O. Ryan, Middletown; secre- tary, Rev. E. C. Wolfender, Waterfor treasurer, W. J. Tellar, Hartford. The Baptist Ministers' association lalso met and elected these officers: President, Rev. W. D. Swaffleld, Dany ielscn; secretary, Rev. Earle W. Dar- row, Willington. . HIGHWAYMAN SANDBAGS MAN AT SOUTH AVON, N. Y. Newton Hoffman Was Wired Head and Foot' to the Tracks. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 18 —Highway- men sandbagged Newton Hoffman, 22 years old, as he stepped from a south- bound Erie train at South Avon to- night and wired him, head and foot, to the tracks. He was run over by a train which came along an hour later and his foot taken off. After the ac- Iclde’n( he regained consciousness. Hoftman/ = )1 he remembered from the timé he was sandbagged - til he felt a sharp pain in his oo He was rushed to a Rochester hos- pital on a special train and - it | thought Ne will recover. NEWS OF BROTHER'S Y DEATH 13 YEARS AGO, Bosi, Miesin iHad adjustment of the trouble at the fac-. Paragrenhs | Gagpling Schooner |Contract Awards by Navy Dept./.: = SUBMARINES' AND BIX DESTROYERS . TOTAL COST $4,923,443 Two Destroyers and Four Submersi- bles Are to Be Built at Navy Yards ~—Delivery Required in 18 to 20 Months. . ) ‘ashington, Oct. 18.QContracts for 16 submarines and six destroyers were awarded today by the navy B ment. One destroyer will be buflt at the Norfolk nayy yard and one at Mare Island, Calif. Four of the sub- marines will be bulit on and the Porthmouth, N. H. navy yards each will bulld one. Four Destroyers at Private Yards. The four destroyers to be built at private vards were awarded lows: Cramp and Sons company, two at $845,000 cach; Seattle Construction and Drydock compauy, one at $885,000; Bath Iron Works, one at $8879,500. Navy Yard Awards. The destrover to be built at_the Mare Island navy yard will cost $762, 838 and the one at the Norfolk yard $706,305. The total of the awards is $4,923,443, The limit of cost imposed by congress was $925,000 each, or a total of $5, 500,000. All the boats will have a min. imum speed of 30 knots an hour and will displace 1,125 tons each. Delivery to the government is required in from 18 to 20 months. Private Submarine Contracts. The submarine contracts awarded to private firms were as follows: Elec- tric Boat company, elght at $545.000 each: Lake Torpedo Boat A three at $545,000 ea chm“flm- Shipbuilding company, .Long - Beach, Calif. (Lake company designs), three at, $548,500 each. “It is interesting to note” sald Secretary Daniels, in awarding the contracts, “that the six destroyers and the 16 submarines constitute the greatest number of contracts for new construction ever awprded in the his. ::) of the navy department at one ime. “The destroyers will be buflt in the (Continued on Page Two.) HILLSTROM TO_BE SHOT e TO DEATH FRIDAY. Swede Whose Respite Was Granted * #€“Request of President Wilson. Sali Lake City, Utah, Oct. 18.—Jo- #eph - Hillstrom, "convicted of murder. was resentenced today to be executed Friday, November 19. Wide attention was called to Hill- strom’s case when, at the request of the Swedish minister, President Wil- son interceded in,his behalf, Hillstrom was to be shot to death. Hillstrom, who is a Swede was con~ victed of the murder here January 10, 1914, of J. C. Morrison and Morrison’s son. He was ofiginally sentenced to be executed October 1. A respite un- til last Saturday was granted ' by Governor Spry at the request of Pres- ident Wilson who had been assured that Newtes would clear the accused. The respite was terminated and Hill- strom's application for commutation of sentence was denied by the board of pardons on Saturday as no new ev- idence was presented. DEMONSTRATION IN HONOR OF THOMAS A. EDISON. Will Be on a Sca tempted in Never Before At- Francisco. San Francisco, Oct. 18.—Arrange- ments have been completed for a popular demonstration in honor of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, who was due to arrive from the East to- day to visit the Panama-Pacific ex- position. San Francisco's reception of Edison is to take the form of eral illumination of the city - row night which it is announs will be on a scale never before attempted here. Thursday has been set aside as Edison ‘day at the Panama-Pacific exposition. Tomorrow night Mr. Edi- son is to be the guest of homor at a hanquet tendered by the telegraphers of the city. Mr. gen- CENTENANAN CELEBRATING ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. Wi Years a keading Financier of Bal- timore. Beltimore, Md. Oct. 18-~William Wallace Spence, for mény years a leading financier of this city, is cel- ebrating today the 100th anniversary of his birt! Mr. Spence was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. It took him 70 to cross from Scotland to the Unitea States In 1833.. Last Saturday he re- turned from- Hot Springs, Va., where he had spent the summer months. For years Mr. Spence has express- ed the determination to live to be has ‘one s ia" attributed Iaray to ne so is attributed to his iron will. SHIPS IN COLLISION IN NORFOLK HARBOR %mum PR £l; i ‘was no i i Two women were killed and -two others burned when fire swept the offices of the Mutual Film Corpor- ation at Atlanta, Ga. Practically all the machine tenders of the Corbin Screw corporation, New Run Cars on a Siding Which Was Blocked by W Sitting on the Track With Babies in Their An - When Strike Sympathizers Tried to Prevent Food £ Nashua, N. H. Oct. 18—An aug- mented military ' guard tonight pa- trclled the plant of the Nashos Manu- facturing company, where one man was probably fatally shot, one woman bayonetted and other persons Wwere clubbed during a strike disturbstice to- Eritain, who have been on strike have | 4a¥. returned to their work. hanging at Murphysboro, Ill, of Joe Debbery, a negro, executed for the murder of Mrs. U. H. Martin. Ninety-five prisoners of war were taken whep s British figet of trawlers and e raided a fidet of 13 Ger- man fishing trawlers in the North Sea. Dredges will work night and day in Gaillard Cut, Panama, to remove the obstructions caused by a slide, which is blocking passage through the canal. The Modified Mauser Co., of New York, received an order for 32,000,000 Russian type Mauser rifies. The guns are thought to be destined for the Allfes. Eighteen of 65 passengers ina Union Pacific motor bus were killed at Randolph, Kan., when it plunged through a bridge into a creek swollen by rains. Four men were killed and four others injured in a gas explosion at the by-product pignt of the Tennessee Coal, iron & Rallroad Co., at Fair- fleld, Ala. Strid, a farmhand, who was shot g‘.'r“'wl n Geviordeyila B sacioun” tion in the hompital at _The nrvfc boat destroyer Reid, on neutrality duty in Boston harbor, was rammed while at anchor and slightly "{gm' barge Mauch Chunk The Austrian Minister of Defense accepted -an offer of a corporation headed by E. G. Darnley, to raise the German cruiser Emden, ashore on Keeling Island. The supreme court of the Unpited States gave no decisions vesterday, al- though it was the first decision day of the fall term. Several motions and petitions were received. The Bishop of London, speaking at Hackney, urged the people of England not to fear air raids, telling them to face their share of danger the same as the men in the trenches. . John Franks, aged 60, ticket agent at the Pennsylvania Railroad station Bridgeville, Pa., was shot and by two burglars who escaped the contents of the cash box. The ca of dynamite aboard the German mer Magdeburg, which has lain at anchor in Gravesend Bay since the war began, was sold to the E I du Pont de Nemours Powder Co. Dr. and Mrs. Frank B. Hagner of Washington, announced the engage- ment of their daughter, Miss Isabel Hagner, social secretary at the White House, to Norman James, of Balti- more. A party of California: school ‘lfi": will arrive in Washington today #rom San_ Francisco with .a petition signed by 300,000 persons, inviting President ‘Wilson to wisit the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The Rev. Father Chaies M. Char- roppin, . J, widely known as an as- tronomer, and formerly head of the department of science at St. Louis university, died at St. Charles, Mo., of appendicitis. Navy Daniels granted 13 days’ delay in the court ‘martial James Nichols, a negre, held by the New Britain police on a charge of The Utah Board of Pardons denied commutation to Joseph Hilistrom. I W. W. song writer, whose pardon had been sought by the Swedish Ambassa- dor: He will be taken to court agaln and sentenced to be shof. Four Militia Companies_Called Out. two local companies which have been on duty within the mill gates since the strike for more pay and shorter hours began two weeks ago. Shot by a Miligia Officer. Adam Raxavitch, who was shot by a militia officer, according to & state- STRENUOUS SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN IN NEW JERSEY Fominine Orators Busy in Strests— Polls Close at 7 O'Clock Tonight. Newark, N. J., Oct. 15—The vigor of the hot campaign waled by women workers for suffrage rose to its high- est pitch tonight, election eve, in every section of New Jersey. All day the yellow banners of the suffrage asso- Saticns and the grem. white'andyver- ple of the Woman's Political fon fluttered from hundreds of automobiles from Cape May to the New York line and tonight there were few communi- ties in the state where the voices of feminine orators were not lifted in the streets for the cause. Jn this city on the spot where the first settiers hoisted - their standard nearly 250 v—nt‘:.-tfi more of women with- speil ';x.m talking toniglt, undefthe faming of Broag e out - 3 pleading ks rongs to “vote right” tomor. ro! wn_and they say, Will find them still at their post, for this 24 hour meeting is not'to_end till the polls open at ¢ oclock The last hours of thls fight have set a new rec- ord for political activity in New Jer- sey. Polls will close at 7 o'clock to- morrow night. President Wilson's vote for suffrage will be cast in Princeton. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES Hundreds of Clergy and Laymen Ar- rive in New Haven for Session. New Haven, Conn. Oct. 18~—The first among the many hundred clergy and laymen who are delegates to the sixteenth biennial meeting of the tional Council of Congrezational Churghes, arrived today. Most of these' were officers of denominational societies in the east who have bpen appointed members of . the couficll proper and the affiliated societies such as the American Board of Fereign Missions, the Congregational Sunday school and publishing society, the Congregational Board of -Ministerial Relief, the Home Mission society, the Educational society and various mis. sionary bodies both home amd for- elgn. The first session of the council will be or Wednesday afternoon and the closing one probably on Oect. 2 Many of the most prominent men in the denomination are to take active part in the council's deliberation or In sec- tional meetings. The committee dn arrangements to- day stated that hotel accommodations In the city have been taxed and that hundreds of the delegates will be cared for bz,fm:mr- of l.'h\l“::n.lr- respective lenomination. pe- cial train started from the west to- day with a body of delegates. The number of authorized delegates to ihe council is about 600 while the gntire delegation to all societies meeting with the counci! is thought to be more than two thousand. CHARGED WITH USING MAILS TO DEFRAUD John J. V. Wilcex, Connected with a So-Called Magazine Agency. I alleged Dy the government that Wil- cox cauned advertissments (o be print- se- cure for each person ten unlimitied number of sam- ney as having been committed by New Haven directars “with intent and with ful] knowledge that they were unlawful.” By Mr. Batts will continue his address tomorrow. TO RESUME DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH MEXICO Today After Lapse of Two Years and Eight Months. ‘Washington, Oct. 18.—Diplomatic re- lations between the United States and, Mexico will be formally remewed to- morrow, after a lapse of two years and eight months, by the formal ree- ognition of Venustiano Carranza &s the chief executive of the de facto go¥= ernment of Mexico. Secretary Lansing and the ambassa- dors from Brazil, Chile and Argentina. and the ministers from Bolivia, Uru- guay and Guatemala, constituting the Pan-American conference on Mexican affairs, met today and decided upom s & the form in which their respective gov- ernments would present recognition and fixed tomorrow for the act. Afters ward Secretary Lansing made this an- nouncement: “The conferees under _instruction from their several governments, will recognize tomorrow the de facto gO¥: ernment of Mexico of which General Carranza is the chief executive™ Each government will address General Carranza a letter or note of recognition to be delivered to Eliseo Arredondo, personal representative of General Carranza here. Mr. Arredom= do, who is a first cousin of Mr. Card ranza, will leave here Wednesday oF - Thursday to convey in person tho jet=. ters of recognition from the seversi governments. 3 With the decision on the form of recognition, the Pan-American confer- | ence on Mexican affairs adjourned. RENOMINATION COST 5 - il